| 1 | Creator: | Wister, Charles Jones,1822-1910. | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Memoir of Charles J. Wister, 1782-1865, [n.d.]
| | | | Dates: | n.d. | | | | Abstract: | The memoir was written by Charles Jones Wistar, the son of Charles J. Wistar. He was an artist and a writer, who was interested in the affairs of Germantown, and active as President of the Site and Relic Society and President of the Germantown Academy until his death in 1910. | | | | Call #: | Mss.B.W765 | | | | Extent: | 2.0 Volume(s) | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Manuscript Essays | Medicine | Memoirs. | Travel Narratives and Journals | Wister, Charles Jones, 1782-1865 | Wister, Charles Jones,1822-1910. | |
| 7 | Creator: | Lloyd, Thomas,1756-1827. | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Thomas Lloyd commonplace book, 1789-1796
| | | | Dates: | 1789-1796 | | | | Abstract: | This volume contains letters (a few in shorthand) relating to his pursuit of the position as principal recorder, and then, upon accomplishing this, his problems in publishing. There are sales accounts and a diary (April, 1793 to June, 1794), written while he was imprisoned in Newgate Prison, London (1793 to Jan., 1796). Included for this period is an interesting description, brought to him at Newgate by an Englishman, John Ford, who was seeking support and American contacts for his plan to take an English textile process to America: "A Manufacture of Wollen & Cotton Cloth & Without spinning or weaving," August, 1794. | | | | Call #: | Mss.B.L774 | | | | Extent: | 1.0 Volume(s) | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Accounts. | American Revolution | Americans Abroad | Commonplace Book | Diaries. | Ford, John | Lloyd, Thomas,1756-1827. | Miscellaneous | Publishers and publishing. | Textile industry -- England. | Travel Narratives and Journals | United States -- Politics and government. | |
| 8 | Creator: | Parnell, Richard,1810-1882. | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Richard Parnell Notebook
| | | | Dates: | 1839-1840 | | | | Abstract: | In 1839-1840, the ichthyologist Richard Parnell left London for a collecting expedition to Jamaica and a tour of museum collections in the United States. An authority on both fishes and grasses, Parnell published two noted works as a young man, his
Prize Essay on the Natural and Economical History of the Fishes Marine, Fluviatile, and Lacustrine, of the River District of the Firth of Forth (Edinburgh: Neill and Co., 1838) and
The Grasses of Britain, 2 vols. (Edinburgh: Blackwood, 1842-1845). He appears, however, to have abandoned publication in 1845, although he continued collecting for many years.
The notebook kept by Richard Parnell during his voyage to the West Indies and United States in 1839-1840 contains little narrative, but dozens of pencil and watercolor sketches of the marine life that absorbed his interest, primarily fishes. Most sketches are accompanied by brief notes on the anatomy of the fish, sometimes with close-ups of fin structures, air bladders, or the digestive tract and stomach. Although collecting localities are seldom recorded, the majority of specimens seem to have been collected in Jamaica, with at least a few observed in vitro at the New York Museum. | | | | Call #: | Mss.597.P24n | | | | Extent: | 1.0 Volume(s) | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Art | Bancroft, Edward | Fishes--Jamaica | Griffith, William | Ichthyology--Jamaica | Natural History | New York Museum | Parnell, Richard,1810-1882. | Pencil works | Science and Technology | Travel Narratives and Journals | Watercolors | |
| 12 | Creator: | Welch, George,fl. 1671. | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Journal, 1671, of a voyage to the West Indies
| | | | Dates: | 1671 | | | | Abstract: | This journal describes Welch's journey from his home in England to the coast, the long wait for the wind, the voyage, preparations against possible attack by pirates, visits to Barbados, Nevis, and other islands, and his arrival at Port Royal in Hispaniola. | | | | Call #: | Mss.917.29.W46j | | | | Extent: | 1.0 Volume(s) | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Hispaniola. | International Travel | Journals (notebooks). | Manuscript Essays | Pirates. | Religion | Travel Narratives and Journals | Voyages and travels. | Welch, George,fl. 1671. | West Indies -- Description and travel. | |
| 13 | Creator: | Clark, William, 1770-1838 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | William Clark diary, August 25, 1808 - September 22, 1808
| | | | Dates: | August 25, 1808 - September 22, 1808 | | | | Abstract: | William Clark kept this diary on an expedition to make a treaty with the Osage Indians in the Missouri Territory. A sketch drawn under the September 16 entry is apparently a draft of Clark's Fort Osage map, while the first page of notes presents color scheme used on another draft. See Kate L. Gregg,
Westward with Dragoons (1937: 48) for the map in printed version. | | | | Call #: | Mss.917.3.L58c | | | | Extent: | 1.0 Volume(s) | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Clark, William, 1770-1838 | Diaries. | Fort Osage (Mo.) | Indians of North America--Treaties | Missouri -- Description and travel. | Native America | Osage Indians--Treaties | Sketchbooks | Sketches. | Trade | Travel | Travel Narratives and Journals | |
| 15 | Creator: | Martin de La Bastide,M. | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Mémoire sur la possibilité, les avantages, et les moyens douvrir un canal dans l'Amérique septentrionale, pour communiquer de la mer Atlantique, ou du Nord, à la mer Pacifique, ou du Sud, [ca. 1785]
| | | | Dates: | Circa 1785 | | | | Abstract: | This copy was secured by Thomas Jefferson, 30 June 1817, and was presented by him to the American Philosophical Society Historical and Literary Committee, 6 November 1817. | | | | Call #: | Mss.386.M36 | | | | Extent: | 1.0 Volume(s) | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Beyond Early America | International Travel | Manuscript Essays | Martin de La Bastide,M. | Nicaragua Canal (Nicaragua) | Panama, Isthmus of (Panama) | Travel Narratives and Journals | |
| 20 | Creator: | Strahan, William, 1715-1785 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | William Strahan journals and accounts, 1751-1777
| | | | Dates: | 1751-1777 | | | | Abstract: | The first three volumes contain journals of Strahan's travels in Scotland, with records of expenses along the way, for 1751, 1759, 1760, 1766, 1768, 1773, and 1777. Strahan and Benjamin Franklin were in Edinburgh at the same time in 1759. The fourth volume contains "The particulars of the estate of Wm Strahan as it stood on the first of January 1755," and also for 1759 and 1761, with some miscellaneous accounts. | | | | Call #: | Mss.B.St83.St83x1 | | | | Extent: | 4.0 Volume(s) | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Accounts. | American Revolution | Business Records and Accounts | Diaries | Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790 | International Travel | Journals (notebooks). | Printing and Publishing | Scotland -- Description and travel -- Early works to 1800. | Strahan, William, 1715-1785 | Travel Narratives and Journals | |
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